Cloned Meat & Dairy - SAFE! Says the FDA.
Jan 16, 2008 | Tags: Ramble
So cloned food is safe? How so!?
The Food and Drug Administration has just announced this week that cloned food is safe. According to the news, the FDA has spent six years tracking the safety in the cloned food, but honestly six years is not enough in my opinion. How did they track the safety? Did they feed humans cloned food and for how long? Their report is very shady because it doesn’t tell me the details on safety testing for humans. Six years is nothing! We live almost to an average age of 80. Sure, cloned food has the same DNA as the real thing, but we never know what really happens. There may be something in the cloned DNA that no one can see yet. Just like long time ago, no one knew what DNA was. Something could be discovered in cloned food years from now.
Labelling the food or not?
Furthermore, the article quotes: “The Food and Drug Administration ruled that labels won’t have to reveal whether the food comes from cloned cows, pigs or goats, or the clones’ offspring, because those ingredients are no different than meat or milk from livestock bred the old-fashioned way.” Uhhhhhh…I want to know what I am eating! This ticks me off! If I am eating meat from cloned offspring, I want to know. Was the FDA lobbied about not labeling food that it is cloned? I hope companies act moral and label the food anyway.
Have we already eaten cloned food unknowingly?
The USDA has asked that the cloned animals stay out of the marketplace, but there is evidence circulating that the marketplace may have already had exposure to cloned animals. A cattle producer in Kansas has admitted to selling semen from cloned animals. Major cattle cloning companies can’t even vouch how many cloned offspring have entered the food supply.
Heck – I wouldn’t be surprised if we already ate cloned food. I can feel my hypochondriac self freaking out that my DNA is going to be corrupted when I’m old because of cloned food. Maybe I should become a vegetarian. But then again, there’s genetically modified food!
The future.
It will be interesting to see what happens to dairy and meat sales in the future. Safety isn’t the only issue here, ethics and morality is probably another huge factor. Please let us, the consumers, decide if we want to eat cloned food by using labels.
What’s your take on this? Would you eat cloned food?
